Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Well, he did try to present a case for war in the SOTU. But what
a case. Again with the aluminum tubes. Atrios
proclaims "complete ethical bankruptcy" --- but that's a little much to say about Colin Powell.

Another explanation --- not original to me --- is that the intelligence
analysts who were widely rumored last fall to be under heavy
pressure to produce a pro-war case finally knuckled under and
gave Rummy what he wanted, and that now the administration's
top brass is actually believing intelligence that in truth amounts
to little more than their own propaganda.